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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Most embedded fonts are useless and not all that good. So why not dump them?
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I have seen only 2 eBooks (out of nearly 2000) that use embedded fonts for something other than trying to change the base reading font.
And yet, there are dozens of physical books I own that used some sort of alternate font for special purposes (headings, computer code, handwriting, etc.) and the eBook of the same book either skips it entirely or instead uses an image. The image is often tiny and either doesn't scale with base font size changes, or looks so bad when scaled up as to be useless.
An embedded font with subsetting would be perfect for this use case, but I'm pretty sure the average MR reader knows more about eBook formatting than most of the people actually doing it for a living.